Originally Posted by Val
For example, a recent study in Stanford found physical differences in the brains of children with different abilities at learning math.

Has anybody been able to access the actual paper? The press release Bostonian linked to a while back had the most inflammatory (and unsupported from the content) title I had ever seen, and the abstract made me want to know a lot more about their methodology and results.

I will note that they say the ability of children to benefit from 1:1 tutoring for automaticity in arithmetic tasks (the study wasn't about "learning math") was not correlated to either IQ or working memory.

And there are often a chicken and egg issues with studies of brain differences...